Speakers

Professor Richard Shaw, author and professor of Politics, Massey University – Small Stories of Colonization: An Uncomfortable Settler Family History

Distinguished Professor Emeritus Paul Spoonley FRSNZ ONZM – Auckland’s Changing Demography: One of the Most Superdiverse Cities Globally

Rob Campbell CNZM – Our place in the future world.: Who we are, where we live and where our interests lie

Jooles Clements – Auckland Zoo: A wildlife science conservation organisation

Dr Stephen Child – New Zealand’s Private and Public Healthcare System: Why all the negative media and what does it mean for me?

Dr Fahima Saied MNZM and Dr Arif Saied ONZM – Journeys of Resettlement: Insights into Refugee Wellbeing and Community Leadership in Aotearoa.

James Duncan, Tramway project Manager, MOTAT. Part 2 of the story behind Auckland’s much loved electric trams, told through a selection of historic images covering the glory years, then their fall from grace.

Barrie Brown
The restoration of Rotoroa Island into a nature sanctuary and the progress being made with pest eradication including the techniques being used in other NEXT projects throughout New Zealand.

Dr Craig Radford
The Reef Whisper: understanding the Hauraki Gulf through sound – debunking the myth of the “Silent World” and providing insight to the soundscape of the Gulf and how we need to protect this underwater sonic world.